Jennifer A Frey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4504273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Frey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Frey |
| SIGNATURE | FREY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical by David Wiggins (University of Kansas Department of Philosophy, 2008)
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Revisiting Modern Moral Philosophy
This essay revisits Elizabeth Anscombe's ‘Modern Moral Philosophy' with two goals in mind. The first is to recover and reclaim its radical vision, by setting forth a unified account of its three guiding theses. On the interpretation advanced here, Anscombe's three theses are not independently intelligible; their underlying unity is the perceived necessity of absolute prohibitions for any sound account of practical reason. The second goal is to sh…
Happiness as the constitutive principle of action in Thomas Aquinas
Constitutivism locates the ground of practical normativity in features constitutive of rational agency and rests on the concept of a constitutive norm – a norm that is internal to a thing such that it both defines and measures it. In this essay, I argue that Aquinas understands happiness as the constitutive principle of human action, since happiness is the end that both defines and measures it. Turning to the thought of Aquinas opens up new possi…
Aquinas on Sin, Self-Love, and Self-Transcendence 1
A longstanding complaint against Aristotelian virtue ethics is that it is a form of egoism. This essay addresses this old charge in a new way, not by looking to virtue and good action in Aristotle, but to vice and sin in Aquinas. On Aquinas’s view, sin prevents us from attaining the goal of human life—happiness—and vice is a settled disposition to sin whose source is a disordered will. Aquinas diagnoses this disorder as “inordinate self-love,” wh…
Self-Transcendence and Virtue
Self-Transcendence and Virtue
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Aquinas on Sin, Self-Love, and Self-Transcendence 1
A longstanding complaint against Aristotelian virtue ethics is that it is a form of egoism. This essay addresses this old charge in a new way, not by looking to virtue and good action in Aristotle, but to vice and sin in Aquinas. On Aquinas’s view, sin prevents us from attaining the goal of human life—happiness—and vice is a settled disposition to sin whose source is a disordered will. Aquinas diagnoses this disorder as “inordinate self-love,” wh…
Self-Transcendence and Virtue
Self-Transcendence and Virtue
Happiness as the constitutive principle of action in Thomas Aquinas
Constitutivism locates the ground of practical normativity in features constitutive of rational agency and rests on the concept of a constitutive norm – a norm that is internal to a thing such that it both defines and measures it. In this essay, I argue that Aquinas understands happiness as the constitutive principle of human action, since happiness is the end that both defines and measures it. Turning to the thought of Aquinas opens up new possi…
Revisiting Modern Moral Philosophy
This essay revisits Elizabeth Anscombe's ‘Modern Moral Philosophy' with two goals in mind. The first is to recover and reclaim its radical vision, by setting forth a unified account of its three guiding theses. On the interpretation advanced here, Anscombe's three theses are not independently intelligible; their underlying unity is the perceived necessity of absolute prohibitions for any sound account of practical reason. The second goal is to sh…
Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical by David Wiggins (University of Kansas Department of Philosophy, 2008)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Ethics & Moral Philosophy (2 works) · General (2 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (2 works) · Mind & Body (2 works) · Moi (Philosophie) (2 works) · Personality (2 works)